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...home turf often saves weapons that ought to fade away. Neither the Air Force nor the Army asked for money for the C-12 personnel-carrying aircraft, and the Navy requested only twelve, presumably because all the services knew the politics involved would guarantee them the funds anyway. The transport plane is made by Beech Aircraft, which is owned by Raytheon Co., which happens to be in Massachusetts, the home state of House Speaker Tip O'Neill. He reportedly told Aspin "not to come back" from the conference without funds for the aircraft. In the debate Republican Barry Goldwater, chairman...
...approving R. and D. funds for five new weapons systems: the Army's multipurpose LHX helicopter; an advanced tactical fighter for the Air Force; a similar attack plane for the Navy; the all-service JVX vertical takeoff aircraft, which has rotors that tilt; and the C-17 cargo transport plane, which could become one of the most expensive aircraft programs in history, now slated at $40 billion. To the legislators, the $1.3 billion in start-up money no doubt looked piddling. The cost of completing the five systems over the next decade: an estimated $180 billion. --By Ed Magnuson. Reported...
...products, including telecommunications equipment, auto parts and plywood. In addition the government will make a fresh start at dismantling the maze of regulations that hamper efforts by foreign companies to sell in Japan. Imported cars, for example, will no longer have to be inspected at the Ministry of Transport, though they will still be looked over by dealers. Companies that sell foreign-made nail polish will not have to get government approval for each new color. Importers of pharmaceuticals will not need a license from the Health and Welfare Ministry for each shipment...
AIDS victims are treated like lepers even by some in the medical community. Ambulance workers in several cities have refused to transport desperately ill patients to hospitals. Hospital orderlies are reluctant to clean their rooms. Nurses are wary. When a friend visiting an AIDS patient in a Los Angeles hospital stepped out into the corridor to fill a water pitcher for him, he was shouted at by a nurse. "That pitcher should never leave that damn room!" she screamed. "How dare you jeopardize...
...R.A.F.: clockwork planning, audacity and indifference to the innocence of victims. It began when a metallic green Volkswagen with forged U.S. armed forces license plates slipped past security guards into the parking lot between the 435th Tactical Airlift Wing headquarters building and a dormitory for supply and transport squadrons. At 7:25 a.m., as hundreds of G.I.s and German civilian employees were reporting for the morning shift, a quantity of explosives concealed in the car detonated, with such force that a 5-ft.-deep crater was left in the ground. Ceiling tiles on nearby buildings were peeled off, windows...